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State v. Lair’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

59
cited by 59 later decisions
4
states following
February 2009
most recently cited

53 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Travers v. Reinhardt (1907), State v. Clausell (1990)

53 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Eisenstadt v. Baird · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Lawrence Metze v. New York

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “clearly capable of producing an unjust result.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 257 N.J. Super. 178 - State v. Johnston · 270 N.J. Super. 356 - State v. Kately
  2. “excludes from the criminal law all sexual practices not involving force, adult corruption of minors, or public offense ... based on the grounds that no harm to the secular interests of the community is involved in a typical sex practice in private between consenting adult partners. This area of private morals is the distinctive concern of spiritual authorities.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 164 N.J. Super. 145 - State v. Ciuffini
  3. “The import of the Griswold decision is that private, consensual, marital relations are protected from regulation by the state through the use of a criminal penalty. Cotner v. Henry, supra, 394 F.2d at 875 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Elliott

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.